Avian flu Re: pneumonia

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In the UK we have leaflets with instructions for the whole population on

what to do when it happens, so people start getting educated, you can pick

up the leaflets in pharmacies and other stores as well as the doctor's

surgeries.

If as it happened in 1918 the flu is passed on from person to person,

contingency plans have been made for such event, going as far as closing

schools and keep people with the virus indoors to protect healthy people.

Of course being a small country emergency plans can be implemented very

quick, also most people take these things very seriously and do as they are

told quickly.

The other thing is that the 1918 pandemic affected mainly the young and

healthy, both my grandparents on my mother's side died within a week of each

other, my mother was only 2 years old, and from what I read and seen on the

research that was the type of people that were more affected as well as

healthy children,

I am personally more concerned about the general population than people like

myself who has had a long full life, those people with children are a first

concern. In 1918 50 million people died world wide, of course nowadays

communications and the world health organization are very alerted and react

very fast so it is not like in those old days where so little was known

about it.

Scientist have been doing some detective work and discovered that as early

as 1916 soldiers that died of a so called bronchitis, they believed was the

Avian flu, It is now confirmed that the 1918 pandemic was also an avian flu.

Chonette

> Message: 7

> Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2006 16:17:34 -0000

> From: " M_Hauenstein " <m_hauenstein@...>

> Subject: Re: pneumonia

>

> Speaking of innoculations, has anyone seen anything on how immune

> deficient people should protect themselves from the Avian flu? If I

> understand correctly, it's not a matter of if, but when, it hits the

> U.S.